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Dimitri Probst

Research Interests

• Continuum mechanics
• Cellular contractility
• Multiscale analysis
• Theoretical neuroscience

Short Vita

since March 2015

PhD student at Heidelberg University, Institute for Theoretical Physics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwarz, Heidelberg, Germany

March 2014

Master of Science in Physics, Thesis: "A neural implementation of probabilistic inference in binary probability spaces" under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Meier at the Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik in Heidelberg, Germany

October 2008 - March 2014

Study of Physics at Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany

Publications

• Optogenetic control of RhoA reveals zyxin-mediated elasticity of stress fibres. Patrick W. Oakes, Elizabeth Wagner, Christoph A. Brand, Dimitri Probst, Marco Linke, Ulrich S. Schwarz, Michael Glotzer and Margaret L. Gardel. Nature Communications 8, Article number: 15817 (2017), doi:10.1038/ncomms15817
• Probabilistic inference in discrete spaces can be implemented into networks of LIF neurons. Dimitri Probst, Mihai A. Petrovici, Ilja Bytschok, Johannes Bill, Dejan Pecevski, Johannes Schemmel and Karlheinz Meier. Front. Comput. Neurosci. 9:13. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2015.00013
• Liquid computing in a simplified model of cortical layer IV: learning to balance a ball. Dimitri Probst, Wolfgang Maass, Henry Markram and Marc-Oliver Gewaltig. Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning (ICANN 2012), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. 209-216.

Conferences

• 15.03. - 20.03.2015, DPG Spring Meeting, TU Berlin, Germany
• 14.07. - 15.07.2015, IWH-Symposium on Collective Cell Migration, Heidelberg University, Germany
• 30.09. - 02.10.2015, BIOMS | EMBL Conference: Physics of cells and tissues 2015 - modelling meets experiment, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
• 06.03. - 11.03.2016, DPG Spring Meeting, University of Regensburg, Germany
• 22.03. - 24.03.2016, Mechanobiology - Mechanisms of force sensation and transduction that control cell behavior in health and disease, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 07.09. - 10.09.2016, Actin in Action: From Molecules to Cellular Functions, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
• 08.03. - 10.03.2017, Physical Biology Circle Meeting, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
• 19.03. - 24.03.2017, DPG Spring Meeting, TU Dresden, Germany
• 12.07. - 15.07.2017, EMBO | EMBL Symposium: Mechanical Forces in Biology, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
• 17.02. - 21.02.2018, 62nd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, San Francisco, California, USA
• 12.03. - 17.03.2018, DPG Spring Meeting, TU Berlin, Germany

Talks and posters

• Poster: Multi-scale modelling of cell contractility, 30.09.2015, BIOMS | EMBL Conference: Physics of Cells and Tissues 2015, Heidelberg, Germany
• Poster: Controlling and multiscale modelling of contractility in adherent cells, 08.03.2016, DPG Spring Meeting, Regensburg, Germany
• Poster: Controlling and modelling contractility in adherent cells, 23.03.2016, Mechanobiology 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Poster: Controlling and modelling contractility in adherent cells, 09.03.2017, Physical Biology Circle Meeting, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
• Talk: Controlling and modelling contractility in adherent cells, 22.03.2017, DPG Spring Meeting, Dresden, Germany
• Poster: Modelling optogenetically controlled contractility in adherent cells, 14.07.2017, EMBO | EMBL Symposium: Mechanical Forces in Biology, Heidelberg, Germany
• Workshop: Regularized Fourier transform traction cytometry using Python, 20.09.2017, International Summer School on Image Analysis and Modeling of Complex Biological Dynamics, CCTB, Würzburg, Germany
• Talk: Stress fiber network organization during cell spreading on micropatterned substrates, 20.02.2018, 62nd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society 2018, San Francisco, California, USA
• Poster: Stress fiber network organization during cell spreading on micropatterned substrates, 13.03.2018, DPG Spring Meeting, Berlin, Germany

Teaching activities

• Winter term 2015/2016, Tutor for Theoretical Mechanics I (Bachelor of Physics, 1st semester), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
• Summer term 2016, Tutor for Theoretical Mechanics II (Bachelor of Physics, 2nd semester), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
• Winter term 2016/2017, Tutor for Mathematical Preliminary Course (Bachelor of Physics, 1st semester), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

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